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Posted 10/24/2018   7:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add ikuna to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
None are fakes. The Red Line Stamp has no top and bottom perforations and is not aliened. Other are also not aliened but I don't know if that is considered an error.
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Posted 10/24/2018   8:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikuna to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks
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Posted 10/24/2018   8:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add chasa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I agree, none of these are aliened !
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Posted 10/24/2018   11:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
By "aliened", I am assuming you meant "aligned", as in the centering of the stamps is very poor. This is a very common situation, hence the ratings of F-VF, Fine, Good, Average, etc. The Scott Catalog and Stanley Gibbons both have illustrations in the front to show the differences.

Unless it is grossly miss-aligned, like 1/4 to 1/2 of the stamp on the wrong side, the value is very poor, and almost worthless to many people. Keep looking, and welcome to the Forum.
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Posted 10/25/2018   09:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikuna to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks guys.
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Posted 10/25/2018   1:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wkusau to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The two stamps with no perforations at the top and bottom are coil stamps. They were sold in rolls and do not have top or bottom perforations.
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Posted 10/26/2018   01:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philazilla to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
No. None of those stamps would sell for more than pennies.
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Posted 10/26/2018   10:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikuna to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Philazilla thanks for your candid on honest opinion. For my edification, based on the picture alone, not on "what most likely" can you say that the 1¢ green Franklin stamp is not either a Scott 594 or 596? If you can, then please tell me what you have seen to confirm without a doubt that it is not?
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Posted 10/26/2018   12:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philazilla to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I did not examine the scans of the stamps closely. You posted pictures of lottery tickets. Four of your lottery tickets (top left and all 3 on the bottom) could theoretically be winners based just on what the face looks like. However, your odds are MUCH less than winning the latest mega-millions. The common stamps are BILLIONS of times more common than the rare ones. Not only, that, but your lottery tickets have almost for sure been checked already a few times in the last 100 years. Could they be winners? In theory, sure - just like you could post a picture of a lottery ticket and it could be a winner. If you want to check your tickets to see if they are winners, you can't really easily do it with scans. You just need to check them in-person with a few cheap tools: a perf gauge, a magnifying glass, a watermark tray and fluid, and a reference to tell you how to tell the cheap ones from the valuable ones. For your stamps, you can use the Scott catalog or the online reference that 51Studebaker recommends. And if you think you have a winner after checking and rechecking the perfs watermarks and tiny details in the stamp, it is much more likely that you have a fake than a real winner. But it is possible. . .Good luck!
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Posted 10/26/2018   4:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ikuna to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks again for the interaction. I need you guys.
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